In Chicago, Boystown — with its mix of cocktail lounges, gay bars, nightclubs, parades and drag brunches — has become a well-oiled machine for queer culture in the city. Long before Mayor Richard M.

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's vibrant nightlife and weekends as we knew them are over for the foreseeable future. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, deejays, entertainers, performers, and music and light ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Club promoters advise people to look around downtown Chicago – what's missing? The answer is that there are no African-American nightclubs, and there haven't been any for years. Some ...

From left: Abhijeet, Alexandrea Diamond, Bambi Banks-Couleé, and Lucy Stoole are the cocreators of The Gaggy Awards Credit: Courtesy The Gaggy Awards Update as of 4:00 PM on Tuesday, September 26, ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Dave Roberts, a DJ who was an icon in Chicago's nightlife scene for more than 40 years, died last week. Late Bar, which Roberts helped open in 2009, confirmed that he died Monday, Feb ...

Naomi Waxman is the former reporter for Eater Chicago and an award-winning journalist who covers restaurants, bars, pop-ups. Employees at Chicago’s legendary LGBTQ nightclub Berlin walked off the job ...

But queer nightlife in Chicago didn’t begin with Towertown, and it obviously didn’t end there either. A confluence of gentrification and changing social attitudes towards queer people in post-war ...